bug#52493: 29.0.50; Setting Inconsolata up in init.el makes default face rendered wrong

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 17.12.2021 16:46, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Cc: larsi@gnus.org, 52493@debbugs.gnu.org, rpluim@gmail.com
> > From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> > Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2021 16:21:30 +0300
> >
> > > > Like, okay, Inconsolata_dz has a weird "style" ("dz"), but the plain
> > > > Inconsolata is "Medium".
> > >
> > > Plain Inconsolata is indeed medium, but Emacs now requests regular,
> > > not medium, as the default weight.  And, according to the Fc log you
> > > posted, Inconsolata doesn't have a regular weight variety (whose value
> > > should be 80, not 100).
> >
> > But when I specify :weight 'medium, shouldn't it request medium then?
>
> You didn't just specify medium, you specified both the family and the
> weight.  The implementation does it one attribute at a time (because
> doing it together triggered other bugs), so at first Emacs attempts to
> find a font with that family and the default weight.  And without the
> kludge in font.c, that font is rejected because it doesn't have
> regular weight.

Feels counter-intuitive, but all right.

I've tested the latest master, and that problem is fixed. Thanks!